{"id":1783,"date":"2018-01-08T16:26:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T16:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2018-01-08T16:27:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T16:27:08","slug":"high-growth-in-recorded-violent-crime-over-the-last-few-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/08\/high-growth-in-recorded-violent-crime-over-the-last-few-years\/","title":{"rendered":"High growth in recorded violent crime over the last few years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/15807477.Violent_crime_figures_double_in_county\/\">the Argus newspaper cited our data showing a marked increase in recorded violent crime across Sussex<\/a>. I just ran a report <a href=\"http:\/\/ukcrimestats.com\/MembersArea\/Analysis\/\">on our Analysis page<\/a> and actually, Sussex is far from alone, or even anywhere near the top. All Police Forces apart from Northern Ireland have shown an at least 50% increase and up to nearly 4 times increase in reported violent crime between November 2013 and November 2017. The caveats of course need to be emphasised;<\/p>\n<p>i) crime that was not showing up as reported or recorded may now be much more likely to be so<\/p>\n<p>ii) Not all &#8220;violent&#8221; crime is actually violent crime against the person &#8211; it includes verbal abuse<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also like to add that whereas Police Forces have undoubtedly come under budgetary pressure in recent years, it would be a mistake to see a unicausal relationship between Police budgets going up or down and the level of crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, the Argus newspaper cited our data showing a marked increase in recorded violent crime across Sussex. I just ran a report on our Analysis page and actually, Sussex is far from alone, or even anywhere near &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/08\/high-growth-in-recorded-violent-crime-over-the-last-few-years\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}